Talks over a new contract are ongoing with defender Gabe Osho, while the Club has exercised its option to extend goalkeeper James Shea’s career at Kenilworth Road into an eighth season.
The 32-year-old signed for the Town as a free agent in the summer of 2017 following his release from AFC Wimbledon and has played a key role in the Hatters’ three promotions from League Two to the Premier League.
He made his 108th appearance for the Club when he was introduced as a late substitute for his Premier League debut against Fulham on the final day of the season, receiving a standing ovation from the Kenilworth Road crowd.
Long-serving duo Dan Potts and Luke Berry, widemen Fred Onyedinma and Elliot Thorpe and forward Admiral Muskwe will leave the Club at the end of their contracts.
Dan Potts was a John Still signing in the summer of 2015 following his release by West Ham. He made his name at left-back in the back-to-back promotion-winning teams under Nathan Jones and Mick Harford, before playing as a left-sided centre-half more regularly in the Championship.
Now 30, he leaves with 12 goals to his name from 216 appearances over nine seasons, the most notable being seven goals during the 2017-18 League Two promotion campaign, including a prolific spell in which he netted five times in nine matches!
A towering header away at Oxford was significant in the early stages of the League One title charge, before he starred in seven of the nine ‘Lockdown’ matches that saw the Hatters pull off the Great Escape in the first Championship season.
On our greatest day at Wembley last May, Dan wore the captain’s armband to win two iconic coin tosses – the first to ensure the penalty shoot-out would be taken in front of 36,500 Luton fans, the second to go first – before calmly slotting home what proved to be the winning spot-kick to secure his third promotion as a Hatter, this time to the Premier League.
The Club has agreed not to exercise its option on Luke Berry in order to allow the 31-year-old midfielder to explore opportunities to play regular football elsewhere.
Arriving from Cambridge United in late August 2017, the former Barnsley man proved a stellar signing in League Two when he got off the mark with a hat-trick in a 7-1 win over Stevenage. He went on to net eight times in 42 appearances before a broken ankle at Easter brought a premature end to his first promotion-winning campaign.
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